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Explores the value of adoptive parent support groups, emphasizing their role in sustaining adoptions. This article outlines five types of groups: frustration or ventilation group, support group, service group, advocacy group, and political group. It highlights how these groups validate experiences, share resources and offer emotional encouragement.

Delineates the challenges grandfamilies encounter in accessing federal nutrition programs and proposes various policy solutions to alleviate food insecurity.

Provides a compilation of articles on relevant research and best practice related to intercountry adoptions. Includes information on the causes of intercountry adoption discontinuity and practice advice.

Explains what a trauma-responsive support systems looks like and shares strategies to make support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families more trauma-responsive. Includes information for leaders and managers, supervisors, and caseworkers.

The guide and tool can help tribal child welfare system administrators and leaders develop programmatic strategies for service delivery, including improvements to streamline and better support foster, kinship and adoptive and customary adoptive families. Tribal Support Services Assessment Tool Guide Tribal Support Services Assessment Tool

Helps tribes assess and improve the services offered to foster, kinship, adoptive, and customary adoptive families. Includes the assessment tool and a companion guide.

Describes the TBRI® model and the evidence supporting it as a promising practice.

Shares information about the TBRI® model, including how, why, and with whom it can be used. Offers links to more information about TBRI®, including research, podcasts, and more.

Gathers expert insights from adoptees, birth parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and child welfare professionals to challenge adoption narratives and advocate for reform. This article includes themes of adoption as a lifelong journey, human rights reform, and urgency of education and reform. The panelists include: Amnoni Myers, Sue Badeau, Ridghaus, Dr. Elliotte Harrington, Dr. Dana Johnson and Dr. Gary Mallon.

Explores the experiences of adoptive and guardianship families navigating post-permanency services, highlighting the importance of accessible, trauma-informed, and community-centered care.